It really shows that people have selective bias on what they want to sympathize with. I'm looking at you "rationalists" and "moderates". Fuck you.
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The general (of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard) was killed for organising the killings of Americans (hundreds of them, through the years).
Iran has a working relationship with Al Qaeda (which is also why AQ tried to stop the rogue Zarqawi from indicriminately and genocidally attacking the Shia in Iraq, eventually Zarqawi's breakaway faction today known as the Islamic State declared war on AQ too). I think they still host Osama's son whom they wanted to make his successor. They have even better relations with the Taliban today, very much unlike before 2001 when they had border clashes and Iranians almost invaded Afghanistan themselves.
Role? Osama's goal was bringing down the Saudi kingdom, ever since the latter stationed "the crusaders" in their other holy land of Mecca and Medina in 1990. During the early to mid 2000s the AQAP insurgency tried just that by attacking Western and regime targets in Saudi Arabia until they were defeated and now they exist pretty much only in Yemen (with cells elsewhere including Europe, the Charlie Hebdo attack was theirs). You're very confused.
Okay, found about it. It's from the time of the original (anti-communist) jihad in Afghanistan, which was openly sponsored by the country, and some 10 years before Osama and Zawahiri's declaration of the Global Front Against the Jews and the Crusaders.
Dunno, what is the Golden Chain?
This "country which US invaded, and which by proxy you're defending" was the mortal enemy of Iran, which had invaded Iran and killed more than half million Iranians.
The Iranians should had been especially happy for how new government that the Americans installed was the very people whom Iran had been sheltering (and funding and arming and training) until 2003. Namely the SCIRI (which stood for the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq) and the also Shiite revolutionary Dawa Islamic Party. Besides the Iraqi Kurds, whom they also had supported against Saddam.
The Americans even disarmed the Iranians whom Iraq had been sheltering (and funding and arming and training) against Iran, namely the People's Mujahedeen of Iran (Islamic gommunists, who had helped bring down the Shah during the Islamic Revolution in Iran before being expelled to Iraq and then helping Saddam fight Iran and the internal enemies too).
Suleimani should had been thankful for all this, and for how the Americans liberated the Shiite holy cities from Sunni oppression (also allowing for Iranian pilgrims to finally get access the shrines, which is very important for the faithful), but he wasn't a "moral, rational, sane person". Besides the usual rabid "Death to America" opposition to the Great Satan, he and his bosses hated how the Iraqi religious leaders from the free Najaf and Karbala could now more than rival the Tehran Ayatollahs across the Shia world (it just happened that Sistani isn't political).
I just told you it was the very same "puppet government installed in your neighborhood" that the Iranians worked on installing themselves for almost quarter century. The SCIRI went to the liberated Iraq along with its Badr Corps guerrilla army (and which then pretty much formed the new Iraqi police) from Iran.
They had also counter-invaded this "another Muslim country" in 1981 and then tried to conquer it until 1988 even after it was clear it was a stalemate and Saddam first offered peace even before that. I mentioned over half million Iranians died, what I didn't tell you is they mostly died in thus futile war on Iraq inside Iraq, which was a bloodbath for them but which they rationalised as a holy war to liberate Najaf and Karbala from the Sunni tyranny (and that were only liberated by the Americans long after Suleimani and his bosses failed in that).